Keele Monument

By 1853 the Utes had reason to be angry: settlers were spreading onto their land and had shut down the slave trade Wakara's band depended on. The break came that July. A settler killed a Ute man during a quarrel in Springville; when the Utes asked for a single life in return, as their law required, the settlers refused. The next day they killed Alexander Keele, a guard here at Payson, and the Walker War was on. It was a bitter, scattered fight, with atrocities on both sides. This monument remembers the guard whose death marked its start.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Payson Lakes — 9.4 mi
  Three alpine lakes in the pines, twelve miles up Payson Canyon
• Thistle Landslide — 13 mi
  The ruins of a town destroyed by a massive landslide in 1983
• Nebo Loop Summit — 13 mi
  The byway's 9,300-foot high point, with Utah Valley spread out below
• Mount Nebo — 15 mi
  At 11,928 feet, the highest and southernmost peak in the Wasatch Range

More markers nearby

• Leland Historical Monument — 4.7 mi
• Lake Shore Fort — 5.7 mi
• The Pioneer Mother — 11 mi
• The American Family — 14 mi